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From the time of their earliest texts in the vernacular, Icelanders were interested in the semioticization of their landscape, the mapping of nature into culture by inscribing it with memories from the settlement of the island during the Viking Age.…

Spaces and their boundaries—geographical and otherwise—are socially constructed. Travel is a major means for the engendering of geographical spaces. Humans travel for a great variety of reasons, producing different types of spaces, and corresponding…

Interest in the intersections of various kinds of discourse provides the basis for a closer look at diverse textual strategies of cultural legitimation. This collection presents an introductory essay and eleven studies (written in English and German)…

Joseph Heatly Dulles Allen, Jr. began his career at the University of Illinois as an instructor of French in 1939. From 1943-1946, he taught French and Spanish at the Naval Academy during WWII. After the war, he became an associate professor of…

This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson’s visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and…

After earning a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, Edwim Carter Rae began teaching at the University of Illinois in 1939. After a long stay abroad, he received his doctorate in 1943 on "Gothic Architecture in Ireland."

On August 22, 1945, Rae became…

Leonard Bloomfield was a leading scholar of American structuralist linguistics. He was an instructor of German at the University of Illinois from 1910 to 1913 and then an Assistant Professor of Comparative Philology and German from 1913 to 1921.…

Conflicting Identities and Multiple Masculinities takes as its focus the construction of masculinity in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages until the fifteenth century, crossing from pre-Christian Scandinavia across western Christendom. The…

"A wood library sounds as if it should be a collection of books on the topic of wood. In fact, it is a collection of wood. How can we “know” with wood? …. Because they are comprehensive collections of wood specimens, wood libraries are of significant…

Medieval Arras was a thriving town on the frontier between the kingdom of France and the county of Flanders, and home to Europe's earliest surviving vernacular plays: The Play of St. Nicholas, The Courtly Lad of Arras, The Boy and the Blind Man, The…

“Elmer Antonsen was Professor Emeritus of Germanic Languages and of Linguistics at the University of Illinois where he served sequentially as head of two departments, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Department of…

“In 1990, Helen Bennett, Clare Lees, and Gillian Overing expressed frustration over early medieval English scholars' reluctance to fully engage with feminist theory. “More is being written about women in Old English”, they write, “but whether or not…

An Archaeology of the Cosmos　seeks answers to two fundamental questions of humanity and human history. The first question concerns that which some use as a defining element of humanity: religious beliefs. Why do so many people believe in supreme…

Focusing on language's political power, these essays discuss how representation -- through language norms, plays and spectacles, manipulations and adaptations of texts and images -- both constitutes and reflects a cultural milieu.

Gertrude Schoepperle graduated from Wellesley in 1903, and in 1909 took the Ph.D. degree at Radcliffe. Her undergraduate life had brought a sharp awakening of mental powers, which ripened steadily as she swept on from university to university, from…

Beyond Words accompanies a collaborative exhibition held at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Harvard University’s Houghton Library; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Featuring illuminated manuscripts from nineteen Boston-area…

Bridal-quest romance in medieval Iceland surveys a rich genre of prose narratives that has been all but neglected by recent scholarship, especially in the English speaking world. Marianne Kalinke redresses this situation with a thorough exploration…

This singular work presents the most comprehensive and nuanced studies available in any Western language of Chinese aesthetic thought and practice during the Six Dynasties (A.D. 220-589). Despite a succession of dynastic and social upheavals, the…

Through state-backed Catholicism, monolingualism, militarism, and dictatorship, Spain’s fascists earned their reputation for intolerance. It may therefore come as a surprise that 80,000 Moroccans fought at General Franco’s side in the 1930s. What…

Henry Kahne was born in Berlin, Germany (1902) studying Literaturewissenschaft specializing in Romance linguistics. Renée, née Toole of Irish ancestry, born in Cephalonia, Ionian Island met Henry in 1927 while they were both phd students. She greatly…